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Look Ma No Hands, in 140 Characters or Less...
Clifford Nass, founder of Stanford University's Communications Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, says future automobiles will boast full automation and...
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Osama Bin Laden Didn't Use Encryption: 17 Documents Released
It appears that Osama bin Laden didn’t encrypt any of his computer files. If he had, U.S. authorities probably wouldn’t have been able to do much after confiscating...
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Steganography: How Al-Qaeda Hid Secret Documents in a Porn Video
When a suspected al-Qaeda member was arrested in Berlin in May of 2011, he was found with a memory card with a password-protected folder—and the files within it...
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Amateur Astronomers Scour the Sky For Government Secrets
Earlier this year Iran's defense minister put the world on notice: His nation had developed the ability to "easily" watch spacewalking astronauts from the ground...
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Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer...
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Icann to Notify Domain Applicants of Data Breaches
ICANN announced that it will notify all companies who were affected by the recent data breach in the top-level domain Applicant System that allowed other applicants...
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'bullet Time' to Stop Cyber Attacks on Power Grids
In The Matrix, the famous "bullet time" effect showed how Keanu Reeves's character Neo was able to sway out of the path of incoming bullets, as time appeared to...
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Americans
It is taking Americans a bit longer than the rest of the world to catch on to the idea of “mobile wallets.”
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Web War Ii: What a Future Cyberwar Will Look Like
How might the blitzkrieg of the future arrive? By air strike? An invading army? In a terrorist's suitcase? In fact it could be coming down the line to a computer...
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It Engineers Ponder Fix to Dangerous Internet Routing Problem
Information technology engineers have been studying methods for fixing a weakness in the Internet's routing system known as the Border Gateway Protocol, which can...
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Iranian Oil Ministry Discovers Hackers' Target
The Iranian oil ministry's cyber team has identified the main and hidden agenda of the recent cyber attack on the ministry, a senior Iranian official announced...
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Drone se Takes Off on the Home Front
With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft...
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Could Iran Wage a Cyberwar on the .s.?
Security professionals in both the U.S. government and in private industry have long feared the prospect of a cyberwar with China or Russia, two states capable...
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The World's Five Biggest Cyber Threats
Criminals do not stop at stealing someone's personal data.
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A Further Boost For Quantum Cryptography
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid researchers say they have developed an efficient information reconciliation technique for quantum key distribution that could...
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Engineering a Safer World
MIT professor Nancy Leveson recently hosted a workshop to educate more than 250 safety engineering professionals from around the world about System-Theoretic Accident...
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Turing's Rapid Nazi Enigma Code-Breaking Secret Revealed
Two papers written by Alan Turing that detail his mathematical analysis for code breaking now can be viewed on request at Britain's National Archives.
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The Guardian's Open 20: Fighters For Internet Freedom
From politicians and professors to computer scientists and the first programmer, champions of the open Internet.
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Researchers Work to Make Future Smart Grid Safe and Secure
Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers led by Bruce McMillin are using cybersecurity techniques to prevent attackers on a future power network...
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